Saturday, 3 December 2011

Compassion in Buddhism - Part I

1. Buddhism compassion to take the

"Compassion is the basis", this is the correct word perfection, is the center of Mahayana Buddhism marrow, express the true content of Buddhism. So the followers of Mahayana Buddhism should think seriously, to capture the most practical! From the religious aspect of the Bodhisattva, as in the Sutra often say: "Great ball is headed," "Great compassion is fundamental." From the perspective of learning to complete fulfillment in Business Buddhahood is often said, "Blessed Buddhas, taking great compassion as possible", also in Luan said: "Buddha is the heart of great compassion." Texts are agreed with each other, the core of practices and results of the Mahayana, not anything else, that's compassion. Separate from compassionate Bodhisattva is not, nor Buddha.

Can also confirmed that if there is no compassion, no Buddhism, because Buddhism promoted on the basis of compassion. The guiding principles of Mahayana as such, if transportation practitioners Thanh think about "self interest" would not agree with this opinion. But the three organs Kinh Thanh Law Reviews which practitioners with recognized text, Shakyamuni Buddha, the reality is.

From the state's past life, the Exalted: at the most primitive, the engine leading to the martyrdom of his mind because the ceremony was observed in agriculture. Bhagavan was born and raised in the basilica which is difficult given the opportunity to observe the cultivation of arable farmer. When he saw the farmer hard sunlight, sunny hungry and still not tired to rest; see buffalo plowing is servitude, beatings, being hurt yoke on the neck bleeding; see soil when dug up, there are many small insects, birds have to open; that of cow blood flow to the ground, not long after birth to produce maggots, become food for birds. Being self-destructive one another, the hardships of the farmer, the picture portrays the cruel world. Seeing the scene, interior of the Buddha deeply depressing, from which he was thinking problem needs to lead and liberate the world. But this can only come from thinking as individuals!

Then the Buddha to travel, see the old morbidity and mortality. From the experiences of individuals that understand the general path of human suffering experienced, himself also inevitable. From others to understand ourselves, from ourselves to others that inference. The process of suffering in the life history of being, if only because I think, that sincere affection cup (size) of the text. If not only for ourselves, but for all sentient beings, ie the compassion of the Bodhisattva wander. Buddha does not have to think of capital as individuals, so the off-topic, thorough treatment of the true existence, and went across the river basins of the Ganges, to move around all the way to moral law, Legal drums, blowing speakers law, providing legal sound of magic, calling for suffering beings should awaken enlightenment.

If the view from the story signed, the Buddha's life, not out of great compassion, expressed compassion of the Buddha. If more profound that failure to find stories of the past practice of the Buddha, as the legend of the Four Dam Sanh, the Bodhisattva selfless sacrifice for others! Extremely compassionate mercy beings! Sravakas scholars also said the Bodhisattva took heart from that tu Ba-la-secret radar, when the fullness of the achievement of Buddhahood. Thus the practice and the results of the Mahayana (Bodhisattva and Buddha) is the heart of compassion from the first thoroughly until the end. If compassionate leave, how value is called the Mahayana!

In the Mahayana sutras: the Bodhisattva with Thanh documents are called the children of the Buddha, but the Bodhisattva of bourgeois like a great lady by birth, was like a bar of text at. This is to say, the Bodhisattva of the Buddha's death is the destination, will follow his career noble and pure bloodline chief. What about the star Thanh text? Although they y in Buddhist teachings and to practice teaching, but inevitably scratch your ignoble blood. Ignoble descent, who is revered just for good mental well-toxic recluse or ascetic in contemporary India. Posted in bar of Buddhism, have a profound intellect, but can not delegate to the fullness of Buddhism, because there contains a part goes against the spirit of the Buddha, ie not of great compassion , so the "Flower Adornment Sutra" II gives examples of the excess from the back of the Buddha. So, if favored legal document that says Thanh, Thanh specializes in taking care of the text as well Buddhism, then Buddhism can not be proved from the bi basis. Song based on the Mahayana spirit typical of the Buddha, the compassionate basis, is the most appropriate display and promote the essence of Buddhism, is the marrow of the Buddha mind.

2. The origin of compassion

Compassion is the basis of Buddhism, also can be said is similar to the kindness of the Chinese culture, and charity in the Christian culture. But Buddhism has the ability to go straight into the deep inner meaning of compassion, hope unaffected love of creativity, or trapped in the narrow view of some people, to manifest a complete The most profound and most radical. Based on that says Buddhism, compassion is manifested by an appropriate appeals with the reality and truth, from the common sense of the community agree. This will be presented from two perspectives:

From the correlation of dependent origination : all existence on earth (matter, mind and life), it can not exist independently, but are dependent origination mutual legal y on mutual success. In mutual refuge in the kinds of conditions so harmonious that reality exists, represented the independent body, this is like so woven into nets. The fact that the existence of mutual relationships.

The existence of the relationship, but the new view is a body which operates independently, but in fact it is subject to the decisions of the other relationship, separate from the relationship, then it is not likely to exist. All existence on earth, which is so; and human beings exist like that. Therefore, from the facts that formed the dependent origination of human life, that this is the selfless humanity, human support services, human gift of gratitude newspaper, and also the human compassion to get the basis. Based on current life is inseparable from human society exists. In addition to the relationship between the community and family; from clothes, dress, housing and medicine etc.. both by farmers and workers producing, processing, manufacture, trade in services by providing transportation; intellectual learning skills, academic success and career, both rely on the support relative to of teachers and friends. To maintain social order, the development of public security, frontier defense and protection, all based on the political and military government. If no such causal harmony, we are unable to survive in a peaceful and happy.

If broaden out again, then a nation, a race, to the present time, as demonstrated between closely related to economic thought. Until other beings, for the survival of our happy, well have a relationship directly or indirectly. Between man and man, between being with beings have an intimate relationship like that would naturally lead to more or less sympathy. Y agree on public awareness, or feel there is a reciprocal relationship, with a similar community; hence the close ties of affection, compassion arise to bring attention to an unfortunate touch and pain removed. The reality of the society that we understand.

If the flow of birth and death issues in the three generations that said, all beings, from beginningless time until now, have a close relationship with yourself, to live together, are the parents, siblings, or married children and grandchildren. All beings have for their kindness - "parental gift," "being kind", "countries (United) grace" and "Tam told grace." Therefore, from the mind of the Bodhisattva is unfortunate that all beings "such as parents, siblings, harmonious happiness." At the heart of the Buddha is unfortunate "beings are equal as nearly-La-la" (the Buddha's renunciation before). Type a sense of community not only within narrow limits in the family, nation, race or humanity, and not just co-workers together in a stratum, a region, a school, and an ideal, the same religion, or with an enemy. But from the interplay of relationships individuals and other subjects to achieve a sense of community of all beings, human interest that arise grace of newspapers to bring benefit to all sentient beings (from), at all being international (bi). Compassion (human, love) is the origin of morality, is a measure of the supreme standard of morality. Compassion is the light of the legal principle of dependent origination in the minds of men - agrees with intimate relationships.

From the equality of the dependent origination : the legal relationship of dependent origination is the same message the same message, immeasurable difference. These are different phenomena can not exist in a form independent entities. Therefore, from the law of dependent origination that penetrate to the end, all that is communicated without legal nature, which manifests itself as the most equitable legal nature. This is a legal nature equality, not of divine, not of this or are attached to each of the legal nature of dependent origination.

From the legal nature such as this one to understand the law is conditioned to start, not only intimate relationships similar idea and move forward step two does not equal no other. Mahayana Buddhism teaches, being equal to the Buddha, all beings have the potential to become Buddha, it is concluded from the consistency in the legal equality that nature. In the best interest of equality scene as such, of course, to promote "the great compassion can." When beings are suffering and coercion, there can not be fooled into Buddhist outlook, it looks like it is suffering his own image, his own merit is not perfection. In Mahayana legal, compassionate care benefits well help being, until the future life is restless from this point.

All beings, especially human beings, not just rely on dependent origination mutual co-existence to guide development of human consciousness from the community, but also a way in the unconscious, intuitive to empathy for being, for the pleasure of suffering humanity. No matter for themselves or for others tend to equality, friendly and have the same roots in our desire intuitions. This is not the sense to call us, but because we understand the legal nature of dependent origination. Although we can not afford it but also can not leave it. Because the wrong type, the type of binding, the type of limitation, but through a sense of personal delusion that intuitively reproduce, y in the past that show out. This is the root cause of mental education (type incorrect), moral sense, the root of the spirit of compassion. Compassion nothing is beyond human beings, not outside man, just as the human mind in accordance with the truth of truth and natural phenomenon that appears to display.

Quote in "Three essential for students of Buddhism," the Indian monk City.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).